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Mono typically causes what LAD?

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Posterior cervical LAD

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What is used to treat rosacea?

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Metronidazole

Localized facial erythema with/without pustules and papules

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Histoplasmosis presentations (mild to severe)

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Mild: Pulmonary + mediastinal LAD
Severe: Hepatosplenomegaly with diffuse LAD

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Vomiting after foodborne preformed toxin occurs when?

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Within 6 hours (not 36 hrs)

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Tinea versicolor treatment

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Topical ketoconazole, terbinafine, selenium sulfide

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Complications of malaria

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Children - cerebral malaria: Seizure, coma, hypoglycemia, metabolic acidosis
Adults: Jaundice, acute renal failure, acute pulmonary edema

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What are additional complications of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)? What labs?

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Encephalitis, pulmonary edema, bleeding, shock
Severe abdominal pain

Low platelets, hyponatremia, higher AST/ALT

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Hidradenitis suppurativa - treatment

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Mild: Topical clindamycin
Moderate: Oral tetracyclines
Severe: TNF-a inhibitors, oral retinoids, surgical excision

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Asplenic adult patients should receive what vaccines? When should they receive them?

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Pneumococcal (PCV20 or PCV15 + PPSV23); Hib (1 dose); Meningococcal (quad and sero B, q5years)

> =14d before or after the splenectomy

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Candidemia - treatment

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  1. Empiric antifungal (typically echinocandins first-line)
  2. Source control
  3. Evaluation for metastatic infection: ophthalmic, echocardiography
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Utility of galactomannan, beta-D-glucan

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Galactomannan: Aspergillus cell wall
Beta-D-glucan: sensitive (but not specific) for yeast infections

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Organ transplant CMV affects which organ system most? Dx? Treatment?

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GI - colitis/enteritis with multiple large shallow ulcers- fever, malaise, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain

Dx gold standard is biopsy of affected organ
Atypical lymphocytes on blood smear

Treat with ganciclovir and reduction of immunosuppression

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Organ transplant herpes simplex-1 reactivation organ systems

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Tracheobronchitis, esophagitis, pneumonia, and/or hepatitis

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What is the most common cause of purulent pericaditis?

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S. aureus from hematogenous spread; increased risk from chronic hemodialysis

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Acute lymphangitis

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Injection drug use inoculates skin flora into subcutaneous tissue

Sx: Tender red streaks up lymphatic channels with painful, swollen, erythematous regional lymphadnitis

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Beta-D-glucan antigen

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Rapid indicator of possible fungal infection (e.g. Candida)

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Most common causes of catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI)

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  1. Coagulase-negative staph (e.g. S. epidermidis)
  2. S. aureus
  3. Enterococcus
  4. Candida

Draw 2 sets of blood cultures (1 from catheter, 1 from peripheral site) - differentiates contamination from true infection

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Typical acute bacterial prostatitis antibiotics

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E coli, Proteus:
1. Fluoroquinolone
2. Bactrim

Do this for 6 weeks

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Echinococcus granulosus appears how on CT?

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Thin-walled, septated lesions, occasionally with calcifications

Contracted from infected sheep or canines

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Pulmonary histoplasmosis - chest x-ray

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Healed granulomas (calcified)
Hilar lymphadenopathy

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What virus can lead to toxic megacolon in immunocompromised patients?

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CMV (cytomegalovirus colitis)

Treat with ganciclovir

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Hydatid cyst appearance on CT; treatment

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Large cyst with “eggshell” calcification, along with daughter cysts (internal septations)

Small cysts (<5 cm): Albendazole
Large cysts: Percutaneous therapy or surgery (watch for anaphylactic shock)

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Cysticercosis - bug, location

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Taenia solium

Cysts in brain or muscle

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Uncomplicated parapneumonic effusion vs complicated vs empyema

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Uncomplicated: Sterile exudate

Complicated: Bacterial invasion, moderate-large fluid, flowing or loculated, pH <7.2, glucose <60, WBC >50,000, LDH >1,000

Empyema: Frank pus in pleural space; bacteria positive on Gram stain

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Which bacteria for most deep puncture wounds?

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  1. S. aureus
  2. Pseudomonas
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Antibiotics for anaerobic lung abscess

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Zosyn
Carbapenem
Clindamycin (if beta-lactam allergy due to C diff risk)

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Sydenham chorea - signs, tests

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Chorea, hypotonia, behavioral changes
Motor and psychiatric symptoms tend to wax/wane
Disappear during sleep

Group A strep testing + antistreptolysin O and anti-DNAse B titers

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What evaluation should all patients with bacterial meningitis receive before discharge?

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Audiologic testing for hearing deficits - can result from inflammatory damage to cochlea

Cochlear ossification from fibrosis makes implantation surgery more difficult and outcomes poorer

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Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis treatment

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Voriconazole iv 1-2 weeks + caspofungin (an echinocandin), then prolonged oral voriconazole

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Chikungunya - notable symptoms

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Severe polyarthralgia (beginning in feet and hands) - Up to 70% develop chronic arthralgia/arthritis that lasts months/years - may require methotrexate

High fever, maculopapular rash, conjunctivitis

Lymphopenia, thrombocytopenia, transaminitis

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Molluscum contagiosum treatments

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  1. Cryotherapy
  2. Curettage
  3. Topical (eg cantharidin)
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Type of infection based on time since transplant

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<1 month: bacterial infection from surgery
1-6 months: opportunistic infections
>6 months: typical community acquired pathogens

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Disseminated histoplasmosis treatment

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IV amphotericin B (fungicidal) 1-2 weeks, then itraconazole (fungistatic) 1 year

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JC virus on CT brain

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Nonenhancing, asymmetric, white matter lessons without edema

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Granuloma with narrow-based budding yeast

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Histoplasmosis

(Coccidioidomycosis would be spherules with endospores, unilateral lung)

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Candidal onychomycosis is least frequent in which part?

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Toenails - most likely Trichophyton rubrum

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High-dose iv acyclovir concerns

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Poor urine solubility, crystal formation in renal tubules and AKI
Give iv fluids and loop diuretic to flush

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When is clindamycin used in context of pulmonary ID?

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Anaerobes or penicillin allergy with lung abscess or aspiration pneumonia

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AIDS esophageal infection - organisms and management

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  1. Candida - mild pain and concurrent oral thrush - oral fluconazole
  2. HSV - well-circumscribed lesions with round/ovoid, “volcano-like” appearance, and ballooning degeneration and eosinophilic intranuclear inclusions - acyclovir
  3. CMV - large, linear ulcerations in distal esophagus with intranuclear/intracytoplasmic inclusions - ganciclovir
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42
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Is HIV adenopathy painful or not?

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Not painful, unlike mono

43
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Rat-bite fever

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Flu-like illness with diffuse maculopapular rash and arthralgia

44
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Q fever

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Tick-borne Coxiella burnetii, pleomorphic rod

Prolonged flu-like illness
Maculopapular rash

45
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What else is transmitted by scratch besides Bartonella?

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Pasteurella multocida - both are gram-negative coccobacilli

Bartonella causes papule and tender lymphadenopathy

Pasteurella causes cellulitis and lymphangitis

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Tularemia vs others

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Tularemia has ULCERATING papule with central eschar and tender regional lymphadenitis

Sporothrix may ulcerate but is not painful

47
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Does Q fever produce lymphadenopathy?

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No

48
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Does rat bite fever cause lymphadenopathy?

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No

49
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Hep C - extrahepatic manifestations

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Derm: Porphyria cutanea tarda, lichen planus
Renal: Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
Hematologic: Mixed cryoglobulinemia, ITP, AIHA

50
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Isoniazid heme concern

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Pyridoxine antagonist -> acquired sideroblastic anemia presenting as microcytic hypochromic anemia (dimorphic RBCs)

Unlike IDA, iron and TIBC may be normal or other direction

Give pyridoxine

51
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Causes of false positive nontreponemal test

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Pregnancy, HIV, IV drug use, liver disease, autoimmune

52
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What infection can lead to toxic epidermal necrolysis

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

53
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Bed bugs vs scabies

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Bed bugs: linear tracks in exposed areas; palms not involved since skin too thick

Scabies: extensive excoriations and linear burrows, involves palm and web spaces, flexor wrists and extensor elbows, can develop pustules and wheals

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Scabies treatment

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5% permethrin or oral ivermectin

55
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Hyphae and yeast in spaghetti and meatballs pattern

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KOH prep of tinea versicolor

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Tinea versicolor treatment

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Topical ketoconazole, terbinafine, or selenium sulfide

Caused by Malassezia
Often hypopigmented if after sun exposure (which pathologizes this commensal bacteria) due to darkening of surrounding skin

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Sporothrix treatment

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Prolonged itraconazole

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Cigar-shaped yeast with narrow-based budding at 37 C

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Sporothrix, a dimorphic fungus from decaying plants/soil

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Whipple disease - manifestation

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Chronic malabsorptive diarrhea (steatorrhea, flatulence, distention)
Protein-losing enteropathy
Weight loss
Migratory non-deforming arthritis
LAD
Low-grade fever

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Whipple disease - diagnosis

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Small intestinal biopsy and PCR
PAS stain positive macrophages in lamina propria with non-acid-fast Gram+ bacilli

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Aspergillus appearance on X-ray

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Cavitary mass with air crescents at periphery

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Infective endocarditis risk due to prosthetic valve, cardiac graft, or certain congenital cyanotic heart disease - which prophylactic antibiotics

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Dental, respiratory: oral amoxicillin (reduce Strep viridans)
GU/GI procedure with active infection: oral amoxicillin (reduce Enterococcus)
SST procedure with active infection: IV vancomycin

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Erythematous edematous lesion -> bulla surrounded by erythema -> rupture -> painless ulcer with black center

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Ecthyma gangrenosum = Pseudomonas

Often seen in immunocompromised state

64
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Who should not receive Varicella vaccine?

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This is a live vaccine - do not give if CD4 <200

Zoster (shingles) vaccine, however, can be given to HIV patients

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Viral infection is more likely to cause what kind of cardiomyopathy?

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Dilated cardiomyopathy

66
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Small hemorrhagic lesions on retina with white centers

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Roth spots, highly suggestive of infective endocarditis

67
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Most common causes of osteomyelitis in SCD

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Salmonella
S aureus

Otherwise, Strep pneumo is most likely to cause bacteremia/sepsis, often with no identifiable source

68
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Vesicles on posterior oropharynx

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Herpangina from coxsackievirus A
Erythematous papules -> gray vesicles and ulcers

Coxsackie can also present as hand-foot-mouth disease with additional papules on palms and soles

Coxsackie can cause encephalitis

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Can impetigo cause rheumatic fever?

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No, but it can cause APSGN

70
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CD4 counts for CMV, Cryptococcus, Toxoplasma

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CMV: 50
Cryptococcus: 100
Toxoplasma: 100

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Vitamin A decreases morbidity/mortality of what infection?

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Measles

72
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HHV-6 symptoms

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Roseola - blanching maculopaular rash starting trunk then everywhere else; follows febrile phase

73
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Lyme arthritis (late manifestation) - characteristics

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Large effusion but minimally painful, 10,000-25,000 leukocytes, negative Gram stain and culture

74
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Lyme arthritis (late manifestation) - characteristics

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Large effusion but minimally painful, 10,000-25,000 leukocytes, negative Gram stain and culture

75
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Chlamydia arthritis vs Gonorrhea vs Lyme arthritis

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Chlamydia is asymmetric oligoarthritis with urethral and eye manifestations
Gonorrhea starts with acute monoarthritis but becomes oligoarthralgia, quite painful, typically >25,000 leukocytes mostly neutrophils
Lyme is monoarticular, minimally painful arthritis, 10,000-25,000 leukocytes, negative Gram and culture

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Link the following infective endocarditis bugs:
S aureus
S epidermidis
Strep viridans
S Strep gallolyticus
Enterococcus
Fungi

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S aureus - Prosthetic valves, catheters, implanted devices, IV drugs
S epidermidis - same but not IV drugs
Strep viridans (mutans, mitis, oralis, sanguinis) - Gingival manipulation, respiratory tract incision/biopsy
Strep gallolyticus - Colon cancer, IBD
Enterococcus - Nosocomial UTI
Fungi - Immunocompromised, IV catheter, prolonged antibiotics

77
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Lyme meningitis from dissemination is what predominance?

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Lymphocytes

78
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Central hemorrhagic punctum bite

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Bedbugs - confirmation requires visualization

79
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Where can Histoplasma disseminate?

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Reticulonodular infiltrates with hilar or mediastinal LAD -> hepatosplenomegaly, LAD -> pancytopenia

Adrenal infiltration can occur in minority of cases

80
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C diff risk factors

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  1. Antibiotics
  2. Hospitalization
  3. IBD
81
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Solitary vs multiple irregular, ring-enhancing lesion in brain of AIDS patient CD4 <50

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Solitary: CNS lymphoma - EBV DNA in CSF basically confirms
Multiple: more likely toxoplasmosis

82
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Postherpetic neuralgia vs acute/subacute pain management

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Acute (<=30days from rash) and subacute (30d - 3mo) - treat with NSAIDs, analgesics

Postherpetic (>3mo): treat with gabapentin, pregabalin, or TCAs

83
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Tinea appearance on microscopy

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Branched, segmented hyphae

84
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Purpose of Wood’s lamp examination

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Assess for microsporum infection in setting of tinea capitis

85
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Prophylaxis for possible Hep B exposure if titers low (anti-HBsAg titer <10) and no history of previous or current infection

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HepB Ig and vaccine

86
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Do bed bugs affect genitalia?

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No, typically only exposed areas
Corticosteroids can help with itching

87
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Why is Bactrim not used for Gram+?

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High rates of Strep resistance

88
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What frequency of severe HSV requires daily antiviral?

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> 6 outbreaks per year

89
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Impetigo treatment

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Mild - mupirocin
Severe (non-MRSA) or ecthyma - oral cephalexin, dicloxacillin
Severe (MRSA) - clindamycin, doxycycline, bactrim
SSSS - nafcillin, vancomycin, wound care

90
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Small pink papules on trunk + fever, GI

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Salmonella typhi - rose spots

91
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Erysipelas usually caused by… How does it differ from other cellulitis?

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GAS; raised, indurated, well-demarcated

92
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Folliculitis resistant to therapy and intensely pruritic

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Suspect eosinophilic folliculitis 2/2 AIDS; would need biopsy

93
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Isotretinoin requires what monitoring?

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Elevates LFTs; teratogen

Liver function, cholesterol, triglycerides, baseline and serial pregnancy tests

94
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Are antibiotics needed for pilonidal cysts?

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Not unless cellulitis - would need aerobic and anaerobic coverage

95
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Leprosy treatment

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Tuberculoid: dapsone + rifampin
Lepromatous: add clofazimine

96
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C diff treatment for fulminant +/- ileus

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PO vanc + parenteral metronidazole
Rectal vanc an option if ileus

97
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Echinococcus - treatment

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Surgical resection of cysts and albendazole

98
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Entamoeba histolytica - treatment

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Metronidazole

99
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Triad of myositis, periorbital edema, and eosinophilia

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Trichinella spiralis - treat with albendazole (and steroids if severe)

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